Dashiell Hammett

peut voir la plaque, dans la rue, sur laquelle est inscrite cette adresse et devant laquelle passe le détective. On peut voir chacune de ces modalités de montage dans « Le Faucon maltais » de John Huston (son premier film réalisé en 1941 d'après Dashiell Hammett). 2. Articulations plus complexes D'autres procédés peuvent prendre en charge la liaison, notamment la voix du narrateur, la voix off. Elle peut accompagner les ellipses et les préciser ou même se faire l'instrument de temporalités plus complexes

au fost „romancierii americani". S-ar cuveni, fără îndoială, să observăm nuanţele: datorită atenţiei acordate conştiinţei şi monologului interior, Faulkner, de pildă, este cu totul opus acestei tendinţe... Dar Hemingway, Caldwell, Dos Passos, Dashiell Hammett şi foarte deseori Steinbeck adoptaseră – sub influenţa cinematografului sau precedând-o? – tehnica realismului obiectiv. La Caldwell nu există decât dialogurile şi faptele, actele şi gesturile. Romancierii americani „ne oferă nu sentimentele

of modern police-work. But Simenon’s pace and facility for dialogue endeared him to film-makers (50 titles had been adapted by 1960) and subsequently to television, where Maigret smoked his pipe in many languages. He counted Gide, Fellini and Dashiell Hammett among his admirers and maintained his huge following for forty years. In 1961 a Simenon novel was published somewhere in the world every three days, and in 1972 a Unesco survey identified him as the world’s most translated author after Lenin.